New Delhi: The record-breaking vehicle sales in the city in 2025 come with a warning — the growth is overwhelmingly driven by private vehicles, not public or shared transport.Of the 8,16,051 new registrations, around 7.2 lakh were private vehicles, highlighting that most buyers added personal vehicles rather than choosing public transport. About 75% of these…
Pune: The daily routine Nana Peth resident Nilkanth Mandhre follows includes a careful scan of newspapers and identifying reports related to accidents involving PMPML buses.After carefully reading the accident reports, Mandhre visits the local police station where the accident report is registered to find out the identities and addresses of the victims. He then meet…
New Delhi: To tackle the persistent simian menace at the Delhi Vidhan Sabha complex, Public Works Department is looking to hire monkey experts who can mimic langur calls, considered an essential skill.Monkeys are frequently spotted entering the assembly premises and surrounding areas, raising safety concerns for legislators, staff and visitors. In 2017, a monkey entered…
Pune: The nationwide New Year’s Eve strike to protest low pay and lack of social security benefits elicited a mixed response from delivery workers even as app-based platforms offered festive bonuses in a bid to counter delayed service and manpower shortage. Most customers in the city had no clue about the strike called by the…
New Delhi: In 2026, the landfills in the city will be flattened, chief minister Rekha Gupta said on Wednesday in her New Year message, emphasising that 2026 would be about delivering on the promises made. She asserted that 2025 was a year of preparation while 2026 would take the initiatives “to their destination”. Gupta highlighted…
Pune: The Bombay high court (HC) has taken an exception to the MHADA officials “overstepping their authority and jurisdiction” to misconstrue the chief minister’s (CM) remark on a letter by BJP’s Kasba Peth MLA Hemant Rasne, as a stay on the redevelopment of Sunglory housing cooperative and on a redevelopment proposal of the Nutan housing…
New Delhi: On the last day of the year, Lajpat Nagar’s usually buzzing Central Market lay quiet at 7am, shrouded in a thick winter haze as the city slowly woke up. By then, Sukhbiri, 45, had already been awake for three hours. Her day begins at 4am, and by 5am, she leaves Palwal, Haryana, to…
PUNE: A Shiv Sena candidate from the Dhankawdi-Sahakarnagar ward of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was booked on Wednesday after he allegedly swallowed the A and B form of another party member at the ward office in the afternoon.Assistant election officer and nayab tehsildar Manisha Bhutkar filed a complaint with the Bharati Vidyapeeth police, after…
MUMBAI: BJP has denied BMC election tickets to nearly 40% of its corporators who were elected in the previous poll of 2017. While some lost out because their wards got reserved, others were denied tickets either in order to accommodate fresh entrants from other parties or to give an opportunity to new and young faces…
NEW DELHI: Navjot Singh, a 52-year-old finance ministry official who was run over by a speeding BMW near Dhaula Kuan last September, remained alive for at least 15 minutes after the accident and could have been saved with prompt medical attention, Delhi Police stated in its chargesheet.The final report was submitted to a magistrate’s court…
